[OpenLayers-Users] Ho to zoom to the extents of a layer

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 04:50:05PM +0100, Jakob Voss wrote:
>    map.zoomToExtent( kml.getExtent() );

map.zoomToExtent( kml.getDataExtent() );

http://dev.openlayers.org/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/Vector-js.html#OpenLayers.Layer.Vector.getDataExtent
 
> The getExtent() method of OpenLayers.Layer does only return the current 
> viewport but not the whole extend. The following does not works neither:
> 
>    map.zoomToExtent( kml.maxExtent );
> 
> I think the problem is that the KML layer may lie outside of the current 
> viewport and so it does not get loaded (?) I just want to get the 
> smallest bounding box that contains all coordinates in the KML file. How 
> can you do this?
> 
> Thanks!
> Jakob
> 
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